I’ve not heard of it before but a problematic lemmy user who got banned multiple times for sinophobia and other bigotry/harassment has became a mod of a Political Compass Memes sub on there (they haven’t it’s a lemmy thing, my bad) and the posts on that sub are already rolling out the sinophobia.

This isn’t meant to be a brigade against one user or platform, it’s more I’m shocked that sub has being allowed given the abject shit takes and bigotry that meme sub reddit generates and I find that concern tracks when past problematic users are being made mods for it.

Or is that just another lemmy instance? Ngl it all gets a bit confusing for me trapped here on lemmygrad.

Edit: I think it’s a lemmy.perthchat sub not a beehaw sub, apologies for any confusion. Still PCM is a disgrace regardless and the fact there’s one connected to lemmy now is a bit 🤮

  • Lenins2ndCat@lemmygrad.ml
    24·
    2 years ago

    As far as I can tell it’s a lemmy version of /r/tankiejerk run by neoliberals. It’s function and existence on lemmy appears to be to perform the same function as tj and other punch-left spaces that were created by sketchy sources on reddit. The goal very much appears to be to punch left from a neoliberal ideological position while barely hiding the fact they are neoliberals.

    Crypto-neoliberalism in the left has become a thing and I don’t think people talk about it enough, there’s a lot of neoliberals posing as various shades of leftist while pushing neoliberal imperial core nato supporting positions. The goal of crypto-neoliberal activity within the left is to disrupt the rise of an anti-imperialist left by being a fake imperialist-supporting left.

    • Ratette (she/her)@lemmygrad.mlOP
      14·
      2 years ago

      I know what you mean about crypto-neoliberalism. I mean at this point it’s just crypto-fascism with a less provocative name tbh.

      • Lenins2ndCat@lemmygrad.ml
        15·
        2 years ago

        Yeah it is but there’s a difference because they don’t (and never would) self-ID as fascists. They’re a different and considerably more competent crowd to the people that have nazi flags inside their homes. They’re a much more dangerous enemy to us tbh.

        I liken this behaviour to the same behaviour of the neocons that took part as trots punching left in previous movements. Competent and educated crypto-liberals whose sole purpose in left spaces is to harm the left. They concern me considerably more than the actual nazis as they have a real potential to harm us. Structural and organisational methods are needed to counter the tactics they bring to the table and we must stay ahead of them so that their approach to us is a reaction. If they take the initiative and get ahead of the left instead of chasing us around all the time trying to do their thing we will have a serious problem. They will lead us by the nose at that point.

      • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
        6·
        2 years ago

        Due to the nature of the project you can’t really prevent people from starting their own instances, there’s apparently already a couple for reactionaries…

        But it’s open source software that anyone can install on a server, so there’s really no way to prevent them from using it.

        However other instances are able not to federate with them, which is already the case here for lemmygrad for example. We’ve blocked known reactionary instances and thus they can’t interact with us and we can’t interact with them.